Postcards from Palookaville

While evangelicalism has been in turmoil over pop theology the last couple of weeks, I have just started to read the second volume of Hans Küng's memoirs. Michael Holroyd reports Lytton Strachey as once saying that discretion is not the better part of biography. Even more so is this the case with...

While evangelicalism has been in turmoil over pop theology the last couple of weeks, I have just started to read the second volume of Hans Küng's memoirs. Michael Holroyd reports Lytton Strachey as once saying that discretion is not the better part of biography. Even more so is this the case with...

Last night, a friend emailed me the following quotation, apparently written by one of the gurus of emergent evangelicalism, or whatever it calls itself these days. He is talking about the sacraments, or so I am told: "These rituals are true for us, because they're true for everybody. They unite us...

Last night, a friend emailed me the following quotation, apparently written by one of the gurus of emergent evangelicalism, or whatever it calls itself these days. He is talking about the sacraments, or so I am told: "These rituals are true for us, because they're true for everybody. They unite us...

Logos Software has a couple of great new projects in the works but needs sufficient advance orders to make them viable. These projects are: The Collected Works of John Henry Newman . Newman, as I have argued before on this blog, is singularly important to a correct understanding of nineteenth...

Logos Software has a couple of great new projects in the works but needs sufficient advance orders to make them viable. These projects are: The Collected Works of John Henry Newman . Newman, as I have argued before on this blog, is singularly important to a correct understanding of nineteenth...

Some time ago on Reformation 21 I recounted certain events from my visit to Italy: the awesome beauty of Rome; the flight to Padua with a delightful Maronite priest; and the scene at the Basilica of Saint Anthony, with dozens of old ladies lining up to kiss the tomb of the dead saint and to pay...

Some time ago on Reformation 21 I recounted certain events from my visit to Italy: the awesome beauty of Rome; the flight to Padua with a delightful Maronite priest; and the scene at the Basilica of Saint Anthony, with dozens of old ladies lining up to kiss the tomb of the dead saint and to pay...

For anyone who may be tempted to be impressed by the Rev. Bell's ability to dodge questions posed by a British interviewer, as flagged by Justin Taylor , don't be. The Dodgemeister is still Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, interviewed by Jeremy Paxman over his role in the Derek Lewis...

For anyone who may be tempted to be impressed by the Rev. Bell's ability to dodge questions posed by a British interviewer, as flagged by Justin Taylor , don't be. The Dodgemeister is still Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, interviewed by Jeremy Paxman over his role in the Derek Lewis...